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  • Harvard’s Jenny Liu Wins 2016 USA Miss Asia

    By Xinming Li, bostonese.com

    Boston, Dec. 28, 2016, — For the second year in a row, a contestant from Boston was crowned as the winner of USA Miss Asia pageant. The final contest of 2016 USA Miss Asia was held in Brooklyn, New York, just before the Christmas. Jenny Aizhou Liu(刘爱舟), a graduate student of Harvard University, emerged as the winner from the 10 finalists, mostly students from top Universities like Harvard, BU, BC and Columbia.

    Jenny Liu was crowned as this year’s winner (photos provided to bostonese.com).
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  • Video: Duet of Pianist Yidan Guo and Violinist Shaoqing Xu at MIT

    By Xinming Li, bostonese.com

    Cambridge, Mass., Dec. 15, 2016, — Pianist Yidan Guo and Violinist Shaoqing Xu gave a wonderful performance at start of Ms. Guo’s Student Piano Recital on Saturday at MIT. The duet was a classic Chinese piece, and was well received by near 100 in the audience.
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  • AARP Releases Fraud Prevention Handbook in both English and Chinese

    WASHINGTON, D.C., December 14, 2016 – Approximately 15 million people are victims of identity theft every year. AARP’s new free Fraud Prevention Handbook outlines how to protect yourself from common types of fraud. It uncovers the strategies that scammers use and provides resources to help you defend yourself against their tricks.

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    Audrey Moy is a fraud investigator for AARP (From AARP website).
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  • Mayor Walsh: On-street Testing of Autonomous Vehicles to Begin in Boston

    BOSTON – Mayor Martin J. Walsh, the Boston Transportation Department and the Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics today announced the City of Boston will partner with nuTonomy to begin testing autonomous, or self-driving, cars in Boston by the end of 2016. nuTonomy, a leading developer of autonomous vehicles, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the City of Boston and the Massachusetts Department of Transportation that will authorize nuTonomy to begin testing its growing fleet of self-driving cars on public roads in Boston, once their application is approved. Last month, Mayor Walsh and Governor Baker simultaneously issued Executive Orders directing the development of an on-street testing process. The City of Boston will be able to carefully monitor the effects of autonomous vehicles, and further identify how autonomous vehicles will further the safety, access and sustainability goals of Boston’s transportation plan, Go Boston 2030 through this first partnership.
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    A nuTonomy vehicle in front of Boston Public Library
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  • Chinese King of Pop Wang LeeHom Rocks BSO and Receives Honorary Degree from Berklee

    By Gracia Lei

    Boston, Nov. 15, 2016, — The fully-packed, sold-out performance hall at BSO was packed with over 2,500 Sunday night. They embraced Wang LeeHom, who received an honorary doctoral degree from Berklee College of Music, along with the array of orchestral, vocal, and Chinese drum performers, many of whom are current students or faculty of world-renowned Berklee College of Music.
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  • Videos from 2016 Acton Chinese Music Night

    Acton, Mass., Nov. 13, 2016, — 2016 Acton Chinese Music Night was held at Acton-Boxborough Regional High School last night. Over 600 people showed up for this late Fall concert that featured The Sounds of China: Music from the Dream of the Red Chamber.
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    Conductor Tianshen Guo and the BCMA band thanked the audience at the end of the concert.
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  • World Leaders Comment on Trump’s Victory

    Boston, Nov. 9, 2016, — World and local leaders have released statements on Donald Trump’s historical victory in yesterday’s US Presidential Election. Trump won at 278 electoral votes as of this morning, and became President-elect of the US. Gov. Baker also released a statement today expressing willingness to partner with Trump administration.
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    Trump tweeted this picture on election night.
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  • Report: Immigrants’ ‘Credentials Waste’ is Widespread in Massachusetts

    Boston, Nov. 1, 2016, — A report published by Massachusetts nonprofit English for New Bostonians (ENB) finds that immigrants in the Commonwealth have substantial untapped human capital. However, due to insufficient English language learning opportunities, their often highly developed skills are frequently wasted.
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  • Winning Essay of CACA Boston Essay Contest

    [Alicia Yu was selected as the winner of 2016 Chinese American Citizens Alliance (CACA) Boston Essay Contest. The award ceremony was recently held at CACA Boston’s annual meeting in Boston Chinatown. The essay was written after watching the documentary of Honor and Duty: Mississippi Delta Chinese.]
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    Esther Lee (2nd from right), president of CACA Boston, hands the award check to Alicia Yu.
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  • 26-City “Aerial Campaign” for Trump Comes to Boston on Oct 29

    Boston, Oct. 28, 2016, — Don’t be surprised if you see a big banner in the sky tomorrow in the greater Boston area. On Saturday, October 29, Chinese Americans for Trump will bring their nation-wide aerial campaign to Boston. Planes towing banners stating “Chinese Americans for Trump” will symbolize the support of more than one million Chinese Americans living across America for presidential candidate Donald Trump.
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    Similar banner in the sky of Florida recently.
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